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His legs are so little

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It's up! Go over and check out the whole shebang, with a lot of great new music, and if you find something you really dig, please hop into the comments section and let me know!

Lots of good rock in this week's What's Good

Be sure to tap in with me tomorrow over on my Cohost so you don't miss any of it, but it runs the gamut.

Die Spitz x Twin Peaks? Ayup.

Shoegazey, groovy Quiet-Loud-Quiet? Mmhm.

Black boy indie? Yes sir.

Also new St. Vincent drops tomorrow, Gel preview their upcoming EP, new video from Mitski's album, another single from Crumb ahead of their next album. And if you want more than rock there's plenty of that too: New album from Blueprint, another single from Previous Industries (the group name for Open Mike Eagle, Video Dave, and Still Rift), first single from Louis Cole's next album, and much much more.

Don't miss out! Make sure to follow me over there if you aren't already.

#what's good #reblog #music

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Lots of good rock in this week's What's Good

Be sure to tap in with me tomorrow over on my Cohost so you don't miss any of it, but it runs the gamut.

Die Spitz x Twin Peaks? Ayup.

Shoegazey, groovy Quiet-Loud-Quiet? Mmhm.

Black boy indie? Yes sir.

Also new St. Vincent drops tomorrow, Gel preview their upcoming EP, new video from Mitski's album, another single from Crumb ahead of their next album. And if you want more than rock there's plenty of that too: New album from Blueprint, another single from Previous Industries (the group name for Open Mike Eagle, Video Dave, and Still Rift), first single from Louis Cole's next album, and much much more.

Don't miss out! Make sure to follow me over there if you aren't already.

#what's good #music #die spitz #nilüfer yanya #blvck hippie #Youtube

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Happy World Penguin Day (tomorrow)! 🐧

Dive into the wonderfully-winged world of African penguins with the Aquarium’s own aviculturist, Kim! From rocky shores to sandy beaches, explore where these charismatic birds call home. 💙🪨🏠

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Probably should've posted this on the funny number day, but I just remembered how dope Blu was in the Blog Era. I originally downloaded this song from 2 Dope Boyz, with no real preamble other than, "Here's a song from this new group with a verse from Blu" and after their verses Blu just fucking blacks out, making smoking weed sound like the coolest shit in the world.

Folk and Stress' album never officially came out. If you go over to Bandcamp, you can find someone called Black Stone of Mecca selling it, supposedly as part of a trilogy of Think Differently (a Wu-Tang affiliate label venture from back in the day, if you recall the Wu-Tang Meets Indie Culture album that came out, with Wu-Tang members collaborating with "indie" rappers over DJ Mathematics production) releases. If their bio is to be believed, they're based in Kyrgyzstan, and are acting as a distributor for a bunch of Wu-Tang affiliate artists. If you know the background on Wu-Tang affiliate releases, it's about a 50/50 or whether not they're bootleg, so proceed with purchasing at your own risk. If you must? Digital is probably fine. Anything else? I'd avoid it.

The important bit, though. Blu was great. And still is.

#hip hop #blu #folk and stress #blog era #Youtube

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library visit

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I think a lot of folks in indie RPG spaces misunderstand what's going on when people who've only ever played Dungeons & Dragons claim that indie RPGs are categorically "too complicated". Yes, it's sometimes the case that they're making the unjustified assumption that all games are as complicated as Dungeons & Dragons and shying away from the possibility of having to brave a steep learning cure a second time, but that's not the whole picture.

A big part of it is that there's a substantial chunk of the D&D fandom – not a majority by any means, but certainly a very significant minority – who are into D&D because they like its vibes or they enjoy its default setting or whatever, but they have no interest in actually playing the kind of game that D&D is... so they don't.

Oh, they'll show up at your table, and if you're very lucky they might even provide their own character sheet (though whether it adheres to the character creation guidelines is anyone's guess!), but their actual engagement with the process of play consists of dicking around until the GM tells them to roll some dice, then reporting what number they rolled and letting the GM figure out what that means.

Basically, they're putting the GM in the position of acting as their personal assistant, onto whom they can offload any parts of the process of play that they're not interested in – and for some players, that's essentially everything except the physical act of rolling the dice, made possible by the fact most of D&D's mechanics are either GM-facing or amenable to being treated as such.*

Now, let's take this player and present them with a game whose design is informed by a culture of play where mechanics are strongly player facing, often to the extent that the GM doesn't need to familiarise themselves with the players' character sheets and never rolls any dice, and... well, you can see where the wires get crossed, right?

And the worst part is that it's not these players' fault – not really. Heck, it's not even a problem with D&D as a system. The problem is D&D's marketing-decreed position as a universal entry-level game means that neither the text nor the culture of play are ever allowed to admit that it might be a bad fit for any player, so total disengagement from the processes of play has to be framed as a personal preference and not a sign of basic incompatibility between the kind of game a player wants to be playing and the kind of game they're actually playing.

(Of course, from the GM's perspective, having even one player who expects you to do all the work represents a huge increase to the GM's workload, let alone a whole group full of them – but we can't admit that, either, so we're left with a culture of play whose received wisdom holds that it's just normal for GMs to be constantly riding the ragged edge of creative burnout. Fun!)

* Which, to be clear, is not a flaw in itself; a rules-heavy game ideally needs a mechanism for introducing its processes of play gradually.

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My newest postcard prints arrived!!! They're A6 size and printed on very nice card. Check out my postcard club on patreon if you'd like one of these in the mail :D

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WITCHCRAFT!!!!!!!!

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Working on new stickers and patch designs!!

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Raincoat cat on my mind...

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It's Friday, so you know what the deal is, time for a new What's Good! Lots of great new joints this week from Cavalier, Brainstory, Lucy Rose, Bbymutha, Gangrene (The Alchemist & Oh No), Freeway & Jake One, Couch Slut, Seafood Sam, and much more! Tap in!

#what's good #music

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Jes The Human organized this fundraiser with over 160 TTRPG submissions to benefit the Palestine Children's Relief Fund, open through April 30th. I'm in there with my Paragon playset SHOOT THE GIFT, so you can get it, along with all the other games for a donation of $15 or more. Cop it, then tell your friends!

TTRPGs for Palestine Charity Bundle via Tiltify

#ttrpgs #ttrpgs for palestine #free palestine #reblog

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Elf (?) fashion facts.

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A closer look at some of the artist proofs I’m bringing to CommandFest Dallas this weekend